Pennsylvania

Norfolk Southern to idle hump at Enola yard

A photograph of a Norfolk Southern train.

Friday will be the last day for the hump at Norfolk Southern’s (NYSE: NSC) Enola yard in Pennsylvania.

Instead of using the hump, Norfolk Southern (NS) will sort and attach railcars to outbound trains using flat switching. 

A hump yard, or classification yard, is where trains are divided and sorted according to their destinations using a hill or “hump” to connect cars. Flat switching also involves dividing and sorting railcars, but instead of using gravity and hills to connect cars, locomotives...

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Port of Cork announces new direct service o USA

Port of Cork

Port of Cork announces new direct service to USA

Cork, Ireland, 29 May 2020 – The Port of Cork is delighted to announce the start of a new weekly direct service to Penn Terminal in Pennsylvania and the Port of Wilmington in North Carolina. This gives Ireland its first direct container service to the USA in many years.

The new service will commence on June 6th with the sailing of the Independent Vision. ICL will sail from the Port of Cork every Saturday arriving on the East Coast of...

https://www.allaboutshipping.co.uk/2020/05/29/port-of-cork-announces-new-direct-service-o-usa/

NTSB: Shoaling, poor maintenance contributed to Pennsylvania barge breakaway

Barges piled up on the Ohio River at the Emsworth Lock and Dam near Pittsburgh, Pa. Corps of Engineers photo.

Failure to address shoaling and adequately maintain mooring cells at an Ohio River fleeting area led to the January 2018 barge breakaway that struck the Emsworth Locks and Dams complex in western Pennsylvania, the National Transportation Safety Board reported.

The Corps of Engineers’ and Coast Guard’s “lack of resources and authority to effectively inspect fleeting areas and to ensure fleeting areas are maintained contributed to the accident,” NTSB investigators concluded according to a marine...

https://www.workboat.com/news/coastal-inland-waterways/ntsb-shoaling-poor-maintenance-contributed-to-pennsylvania-barge-breakaway/

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